HMNZS Fairmile Q402 - later Ngaroma

 

HMNZS Fairmile Q402 slides into the water after her launching at Auckland, 18 August 1943.

Ngaroma ex ML402/Q402

Waiheke ferries Iris Moana ex ML409 and Ngaroma ex ML402 (underway) at Auckland's ferry terminal 1980's.Both ships were sold to Singapore between 1987 and 1992.I assume Ngaroma still survives,but Iris Moana,on a voyage to Shri Lanka was captured and subsequently sunk by the Tamill Tiger separatists.

MV Ngaroma (foreground) & MV Motonui (left background), Auckland 1980’s.

MV Ngaroma  ex Q402 - possible Training Jetty, HMNZS Philomel

First Fiji Race – MAY 1956 – Aboard “Ngaroma” as Escort Vessel

“Ngaroma” was an ex-navy fairmile owned by Jim Lawler, at the time the Commodore of the RAYC.

Picnic at Nukulau Island

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